The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE new university at Upsala, in Sweden, has
a building that cost about 81 10000.

draw by their horns, after the old method of the
| Egyptians
| The cultivation of the bamboo for fencing
material has been begun in California. 1t is
said that an acre will produce picketS enough
each year to make six miles of fence.
THE postmaster of Grass Lake, Mich, has be-
come famous, not because he is the oldest or
the youngest living postmaster, But because ne
| recently ate twenty-three bananas at one SIT
ting.
No FRowN OF fortune can stop the Ohio people
when they feel like rejoicing. On the very day
that the natural gas celebration was held,
| $50, 900 of paper went to protest in t1ndlay S
banks
THE widow Jane A. Manly has sued Burrell A.
Olney of Hartford, Mich. She is plump and
comedy and 50, and he is 50 years old and worth
| 100000 The widow wants $4,000 for her dam
| aged affections
WILLIE Woo is the title under which the Os-
coda AIich1 washee washee hangs out his
single, and he has prospered so well under it
| thai ne has taken partner, VINO is also ma
| tive of the squint-eyed empire. The sign now
reads: Willie Woo He Will.
JUDGE THAYER, of Philadelphia, sustained tie
position that the Women's Christian Associa-
ton building in which there home for
young women, an employment bureau, res
taurant, a lecture room and free library, is
from taxation.
THE abuse of alcohol, tobacco opium and
quinine seriously affects the sight, but tea has
not been considered liable to have such infiu-
euce. The greatest of Russian tea merchants,
NJ. Mochanof, has however, been seeking
treatment in Paris for weakness of vision In
duced by the prolonged practice of tea-tasting.
IT is estimated that more than 100000 en-
ployes received a half holiday in New York on
1 L A. IL. L. A.,
the Law does not close dry goods stores Satur-
day afternoon. many fashionable ladies are
signing pledge to only patronize those stores
which grant their employees half holiday once
a week.
A coNvIvIAL Buffalo printer went to sleep in
a second-story window. He fell out and would
undoubtedly have received severe injuries had
he not been lucky enough TO fall squarely on
two reporters They were knocked down and
badly shaken, but were able TO get an ambu-
lance and send the unconscious rypesetter TO the
hospital
WoRKMEN digging on North Clark street, Chi
cago, the other day found a silver coin i'm
bedded in the sand and clay about 20 feet below
the surface of the street 1t is an Austrian
piece, worth about 81, and bears the image and
superscriptiOn of the Archduchess Maria
Theresa. 1t was coined in the year 1880, the
year of her death.
a MEDICAL journal says that the body of Ed
ward l., who died in 1897 was found 4G3 years
afterward a little wasted but not decayed.
Canute died in 1917, but his body was fresh in
1856, as were those of William the COnquerer
and his wife in 1862 Three Roman soldiers dis
inferred from a peat moss near Aberdeen, Scot
land were found but little changed after 1900
years.
A CHICKEN THIEF has recently been arrested
at Xenia, O., who seems to be at the head of his
profession. He operated with a two-horse COW
cred spring wagon, and was always careful to
do his stealing out of his county 1t is known
that his profits ran as high as 500 per week for
several months. He would drive to the scene of
his depredations in the night and would some
times capture as many as 300 fowl.
AMONG the visitors at the Vassar College com
mencement was graduate who has made S10,-
600 in unique manner. Upon her graduation
she was promised by her father dollar for
every cent she earned by working at anything.
She accepted the offer, and entering factory,
where she obtained Sc a week, kept on working
until her father had paid her $4,000, and broke
the contract because his little joke was becom-
ing too costly.
DANBURY is rather fond of its 10 year-old girl
bail player, but her parents are. not. She is
said to catch with perfect ease, grace and ac-
curacy, even the highest fly being captured
with rare judgment She does not throw over
handed like girls in general, but puts il in from
the shoulder in the true style. Her parents
have punished her in various ways for playing
ball on the street. 1t does no good, as her pas
sion for IL amounts to a mania.
The agent of the S. P. C. A. in Detroit was
shocked at the receipt of the following message
by telephone: There is a horse in front of
blank Michigan avenue that hasn't had anything
to eat or drink for two days; it might be well to
look after it," IAN right, sir. replied he; I'm
much obliged to you for calling my attention to
it; I'll so right up" The agent found a wooden
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given, but he saw no occasion for official inter
ference.
WHEN the Car visited the Don Cossaclls, two
whole regiments of boys, about 400 strong
from TO II years of age, took part in his re-
ception. Mounted on lean, shaggy native
horses and welding huge swords, bigger than
themselves, and lances eight feet long they
formed the most wonderful infant cavalry ever
seen. These boys can already ride at headlong
pace. cling on to their stirTJps like monkeys
and pick up handkerchiefs from the ground as
they careen along
A CITIZEN of Albany and his wife, wearied by
the prosiness aud long sermons of the pastc- of
the church that they attended. decided to change
their place of worship So on a recent Sunday
they attended a neghboring church to see how
they liked it. Hardly were they seated when
their pastor entered the pulpit. He had ex-
changed pulpts for that service. and that morn
ing preached an unusually long sermon AT tbe
close of the services he met his two parishioners
and thanked them very heartily for feeling such
an interest in his preaching as to follow him to
a strange church.
THE managers of Bellevue Park, at Pittsburg
recently bought seven fine deer in Michigan and
had them shipped TO the park where a nice big
yard with seven-foot fence was waiting for
them. The boxes were carefully placed in the
yard and opened and the animals came out one
by one. Then the biggest deer turned her large
dreamy eyes toward the Seyen-foot fence and
in a moment made for.it, followed by the other
six. Those who were present were willing 10
swear that that dreamy eyed animal leaped
twenty-five feet high over the fence If she
cleared it at all, and she certainly cleared it, as
did the other six. reward is now offered for
the Michigan jumpers
\ HYGlES1sT writes at last in favor of the
hustle. This comes in a letter. but It is good
enough TO print: "A hustle is the outward and
visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace
that of modernism and mental braced-,lp. ness
| used TO have my doubts about the hustle I
have them still in regard to the huge and
hldeous ones, but find in practical life that the
woman TO be depended upon in affairs il NOT
disdaiuful of hustle. II may be very iipht. II
ought to be very light and fashioned to tbe m
derwalst instead Of strapped around the waist
and allowed to 'lop. but the hustle with street
es cannot be gainsaid. Depend upon boufTant
draperies for the house If you like, but renenl
Der TINT the hustle is the justfer Of the plain
street suit" F
An interesting literary secret is out. Early
in the year Roberts Bros. published a little bool,